It is the chief good in kings to cultivate justice, and
to preserve to every man his rights, and not to suffer subjects to have
done to them what there is power to do, but what is equitable.
Our trust that you both love and altogether aim at this invites us to
indicate to your Excellency things that call for amendment, that so we
may be able by our letters both to succour the oppressed and to acquire
reward for you.

Now they say that our brother and fellow-bishop
Ursicinus, bishop of the city of Taurini (Turin), suffers very
serious prejudice in his parishes that are within the limits of your
kingdom, in such sort that, contrary to ecclesiastical observance,
contrary to priestly gravity, and contrary to the definitions of the
sacred canons, no crime of his requiring it, another has not feared to
be ordained bishop there. And, it being thought not enough unless
unlawfulness were added to unlawfulness, even the property of his
church, as is said, has been taken away. If the truth is so, it
being exceedingly intolerable that one should be oppressed by force
whom guilt has not harmed, we beg of you, addressing you in the first
place with a greeting of paternal charity, that what out of reverence
for the Church and regard to equity your Excellency might of your own
accord bestow, you would study to grant all the more kindly on our
intercession, and would cause justice to be observed towards him in
all 33respects according to
the trust we have in the goodness of your equity; and that, having
ascertained the truth, you would order what has been unlawfully done to
be corrected, and the property that has been wrongfully taken from him
to be equitably restored to him. Nor should the fact of his
church being detained for the present by his enemies be at all to his
disadvantage: but this ought to move more and more the
disposition of your Christianity to succour him, that, being consoled
by the gifts of your bounty, he may not feel the loss arising from the
captivity which he has endured. For the good, then, of your soul
let this our exhortation find place with you, that to your own reward
you may lift up again his dejection with the outstretched hand of
justice, to the end that from your observance of equity towards priests
you may ever flourish through their prayers before the eyes of
God.